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Are these both hypos?

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IcyGhost

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I was told that both these clutchmates are just "hypos." I don't necessarily disbelieve the breeder, because he is very knowledgeable... but because the snakes are clearly two different colours, I am hoping someone can maybe add some clarification... I always see people using multiple identifiers for morphs, and I'm wondering if these two should have differentiating identifiers? It's not super important.. I just like to learn as much as I can :)

This is the male. He has a ruby eye with black pupil. (sorry, it's a cell phone picture my friend who owns him sent me)

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And this is my son's female. She has a red eye with a dark red pupil. Would I be correct in calling her amelanistic, because she lacks black? Or is that used to describe a specific morph? Where her black outlines should be on her body, she has lavender.

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Thank you, Heather! And Amel is short for "amelanistic?" Is that its own morph, that isn't combined with any other terms? I'm just trying to sort it all out! I know dog colour genetics, but snake genetics are new to me.
 
lorlor54 said:
what exactly is a hypo?
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Hypo stands for 'hypomelanism'. Hypo means "reduced" and melanin means "black".

There are many different genes that create a hypomelanistic effect on the snake. Hypo A was the first one, and is usually just referred to as 'hypo'. Then there is sunkissed, which is both a color and pattern modifying gene. There is lava. There is ultra (potentially of hybrid origin). There is dilute.
 
After a while of looking at the photos, you'll begin to see the differences. Hypo A makes the 'black' dark brown or gray. Sunkissed, as I said, also changes the pattern (weird head patterns, squared off saddles). Lava makes the black look kinda purple-y. Dilute makes the snake look like it is in shed, all the time.

Ultra is the hard one; I have a hard time identifying it in hatchlings and non-aneries. Ultra/ultramel aneries have an excessive wash of yellow pigment in the first third of the snake as compared to non-ultra/ultramels.
 
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